Interesting that you'll also be able to use it to monitor your
freezer(s). Especially since it comes with an external temp
probe. So its the whole two birds, one stone deal. Plus make nice
graphs for how well the freezers are performing.
For the fun of it, I might get one just to play with. I've designed
my own temperature monitoring system using the Dallas 1-wire bus
stuff, but has to tie back to a computer. I then wrote an
intermapper CLI probe to grab the 3 temps off from it, and alert for
high threshold.
For Avtech, it looks like someone already wrote a probe, but not sure
if its been released... theres some talk about it here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03190.html
At 11:17 AM 9/16/2009, you wrote:
Good idea. And cool device! Thanks!!
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
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Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 11:10 AM
To: InterMapper Discussion
Subject: Re: [IM-Talk] Looking for simple IP device to check power
Sounds like what you are asking for is really "any pingable device that
gets power from the wall", unless you actually want to see frequency,
brownouts and such.
So I'd just find the cheapest thing I could (like a $20 dsl router),
plug it into the wall, and plug the WAN port into your network, give it
a static IP, and if you can ping it, power is good, otherwise power is
out (or as Ed mentioned, the device may be bad).
Otherwise, we've been looking at something like this:
http://avtech.com/Products/Environment_Monitors/TemPageR_3E.htm
$195, and it monitors temperature. But obviously, if you cant get to
it, power may be out. They have a whole range of products, but most
seem to report back to a single box with its own (non-ethernet)
protocol, which you did not want. So maybe this $195 unit will work,
and be more reliable than some other super el-cheapo network device.
At 09:37 AM 9/16/2009, you wrote:
>I want to remotely monitor power. It can be SNMP, or even ICMP.
>Something I can plug into an outlet or electrical panel and poll
>remotely. I've found devices that monitor power but they need base
>units at every remote location. I'm looking for a device that can
>respond without talking to some intermediate box or computer. I want
>to poll from my workstation without custom software.
>
>Anybody know of something like that?
>
>Ed Konowal
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